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I just found out I am part jewish!

Posted on: October 27, 2007 - 2:47pm

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I just found out I am part jewish!

I already knew I was German/Scottish/Swedish/English/Cherokee. Now I can add Jewish to that list! My aunt was involved in a genetics test searching for Jewish origins in people and discovered that she has DNA markers of a jewish ancestor.

I've always thought of being a "jew" as being an ethnicity. I don't think an Aryan can claim to be a Jew if he/she converted to judaism. Nor would a jewish person stop being a jew if they turned into an atheist.

I haven't read anything about the Nazis asking anybody what their religious beliefs were before they sent them to the camps.

Also I don't think a DNA test can tell you what your ancestor's religious beliefs were. But hey, wouldn't that be interesting?

I was under the impression that Jewishness was passed down through the female line. The funny thing with dna and ancestry is that we all are a hodge podge. I have persuaded my dad to do the genealogy thing and at one point it looked as if we had "Welsh blood" in the family which got a lot of laughs and sheep jokes but thankfully we weren't At the moment we can trace some of our ancestors back to about 1610.

I suspect if I had a dna analysis done I'd resemeble a "Bertie Basset" i.e Allsorts! (liquorice allsort - sweet)